10-letter words starting with wa
- water-sick — (of soil) unproductive due to excessive watering or salt residues from irrigation.
- water-soak — to soak or saturate with water.
- water-wave — to set (hair) in a water wave.
- waterboard — Subject (someone) to the process of waterboarding.
- waterborne — floating or moving on water; supported by water: The ship was waterborne ten months after the keel was laid.
- waterbrain — gid, in sheep.
- waterbucks — Plural form of waterbuck.
- waterbuses — Plural form of waterbus.
- watercolor — a pigment for which water and not oil is used as the vehicle.
- watercraft — skill in boating and water sports.
- watercress — a cress, Nasturtium officinale, of the mustard family, usually growing in clear, running streams and having pungent leaves.
- watercycle — any of various small watercraft that are moved by working pedals or treadles
- waterdrive — (of an oil or gas reservoir) using water to force out the oil or gas
- waterfalls — Plural form of waterfall.
- waterflood — (in the petroleum industry) a method of secondary recovery whereby water is pumped into reservoir rock to force out oil that has ceased to flow under its own pressure.
- waterfront — land on the edge of a body of water.
- waterhouse — Alfred. 1830–1905, British architect; a leader of the Gothic Revival. His buildings include Manchester Town Hall (1868) and the Natural History Museum, London (1881)
- wateriness — the state or condition of being watery or diluted.
- watermarks — Plural form of watermark.
- watermelon — the large, roundish or elongated fruit of a trailing vine, Citrullus lanata, of the gourd family, having a hard, green rind and a sweet, juicy, usually pink or red pulp.
- waterpower — Alternative form of water power.
- waterproof — impervious to water.
- waterquake — The event in which an earthquake happens underwater, usually in an ocean or lake.
- watersaver — a person, device, or practice that reduces water consumption, as during a drought.
- waterscape — a picture or view of the sea or other body of water.
- watersheds — Plural form of watershed.
- watersider — a wharf labourer
- waterskied — Simple past tense and past participle of waterski.
- waterslide — Alternative form of water slide.
- watersmeet — the point where two streams meet
- watersport — a sport played or practiced on or in water, as swimming, water polo, or surfing.
- waterspout — Also called rainspout. a pipe running down the side of a house or other building to carry away water from the gutter of the roof.
- watertight — constructed or fitted so tightly as to be impervious to water: The ship had six watertight compartments.
- waterville — a city in SW Maine.
- watervliet — a city in E New York, on the Hudson: oldest U.S. arsenal.
- waterweeds — Plural form of waterweed.
- waterwheel — a wheel or turbine turned by the weight or momentum of water and used to operate machinery.
- waterworks — (used with a singular or plural verb) a complete system of reservoirs, pipelines, conduits, etc., by which water is collected, purified, stored, and pumped to urban users.
- wattlebark — a tanning substance obtained from black wattle tree bark
- wattlebird — any of several Australian honey eaters of the genus Anthochaera, most of which have fleshy wattles at the sides of the neck.
- wattlework — a simple covering for a human dwelling constructed from interwoven branches and leaved twigs
- wave aside — If you wave aside something such as a suggestion, explanation, or idea, you decide that it is not important enough to consider seriously.
- wave front — a surface, real or imaginary, that is the locus of all adjacent points at which the phase of oscillation is the same.
- wave power — power extracted from the motion of sea waves at the coast
- wave train — a series of successive waves spaced at regular intervals.
- wavefronts — Plural form of wavefront.
- waveguides — Plural form of waveguide.
- wavelength — Physics. the distance, measured in the direction of propagation of a wave, between two successive points in the wave that are characterized by the same phase of oscillation.
- wavelessly — (of water) Without being disturbed by waves; tranquilly.
- wavemeters — Plural form of wavemeter.